Note: Javascript is disabled or is not supported by your browser. For this reason, some items on this page will be unavailable. For more information about this message, please visit this page:
About CDC.gov

This second revision of the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC's) statement, Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children, is more comprehensive than the two previous versions. With help from members of CDC's Ad Hoc Advisory ·Committee on Childhood L...

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Hazard Evaluations and Technical Assistance Branch.

Published:

March 2001

Series:

DHHS publication ; no. (NIOSH) 2001-113

Description:

"This document presents titles and summaries of the 31 HHE's related to lead that were completed between 1994 and 1999. In most cases lead exposure was just one of several exposures that NIOSH researchers investigated at a work site. Occupational exp...

An estimated 115,000 firearm injuries occur annually in the United States, and approximately 70% are nonfatal (1). Retained bullet fragments (RBFs) are an infrequently reported, but important, cause of lead toxicity; symptoms are often nonspecific an...

The objectives of this monograph on gasoline are to help you: • Explain why gasoline may be an acute and chronic health hazard • Describe the factors that may contribute to gasoline poisoning • Identify potential environmental and occupational ...